Scheduling Disk Space Management

By default, the POA performs one recurring disk space management event. Every 5 minutes, the POA checks to make sure there is at least 20 MB of free disk space in the post office directory. If there is ever less than 20 MB of free disk space, the POA performs a Reduce operation on the user and message databases in the post office. You can modify this default disk space management event, or create additional disk space management events for the POA to perform on a regular basis.

1. In ConsoleOne, browse to and right-click the POA object > click Properties.

2. Click GroupWise > Agent Settings to display the Agent Settings page.

   
   

3. To change the interval at which the selected POA checks for free disk space in its post office, adjust the number of minutes in the Disk Check Interval field as needed.

   The default is 5 minutes, which might be much too frequent if plenty of disk space is readily available.

   After a disk space problem is encountered, the time interval no longer applies until after the situation has been corrected. Instead, the POA continually checks available disk space to determine if it can restart message threads that have been suspended because of the low disk space condition.

4. To change the amount of time the POA allows to pass before notifying the administrator again of an already reported problem condition, adjust the number of hours in the Disk Check Delay field as needed.

   The default is 2 hours.

5. Click Scheduled Events to display the Scheduled Events page.

   
   

   The Scheduled Events page lists a pool of POA events available to all POAs in your GroupWise system.

6. To modify the default disk space management event, which would affect all POAs that have this disk space management event enabled, select Default POA Disk Check Event, then click Edit.

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   To create a new disk space management event, which will be added to the pool of POA events that can be enabled for any POA in your GroupWise system, click Create, type a name for the new disk space management event, then select Disk Check in the Type field.

   
   

7. In the Trigger box, select Percent or MB to determine whether you want the amount of available disk space measured by percentage or by megabytes.

8. In the Trigger Actions At field, specify the minimum amount of available disk space you want to have in the post office. When the minimum amount is reached, the Disk Check actions are triggered

9. In the Stop Mail Processing At field, specify the minimum amount of available disk space at which you want the POA to stop receiving and processing messages.

   Below the Trigger box is listed the pool of disk space management actions that are available for inclusion in all POA disk space management events in your GroupWise system.

10. To modify the action that the default disk space management event includes, select Default POA Disk Check Actions, then click Edit.

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    To create a new disk space management action, click Create, then type a name for the new disk space management action.

    Disk space management actions and options you could schedule include:

    Actions	Options on Actions
    Reduce/Expire Messages Reduce only Expire and reduce - Item age limit - Item size limit - Mailbox size limit - Trash age limit Include - Received items - Sent items - Calendar items - Only backed-up items Archive/Delete Documents Delete Activity Logs	Databases User Message Document Logging Log file Verbose log level Results mailed to Administrator Individual users Exclude Selected users Notification Action status

    For more detailed descriptions of the above actions, click Help in the Scheduled Event Actions dialog box.

11. Select and configure the disk space management action to perform.

12. Click OK twice to close the scheduled event dialog boxes and save the modified disk space management event.

    ConsoleOne then notifies the POA to restart so the new or modified disk space management event can be put into effect.

You might want to create several disk space management events with different triggers and actions. For example, at 120 MB, you could mail a warning to the administrator; at 60 MB, you could have the POA perform a Reduce Only; at 40 MB, you could have the POA perform an Expire and Reduce.